the convergence part is the melding of a pda and a cell phone. Hence the term pdaphone. Personally there are much better products out there for taking pictures and listening to music. Converging those items into a smartphone makes me think of one word, compromise. The amount of music you can fit on even the largest flash card is minimal unless you want to pay out the wazoo for 1gb card. And then you're at the point where you'd pay the same for a 20gb player (not the iPod. It's ignorant people (not trying to imply anything, really. ignorant just means uninformed and unaware) that associate an MP3 player with an iPod. There are many more choices out there. Not all are sheep). The only way you can fit any sort of volume of music on those tiny little flash cards is to use a very low bitrate when converting over your music. So combine the low level of music quality on top of an underpowered headphone amp and circuitry and software that was geared towards a pdaphone first and you get crappy music played out of cheap cans. The only time that is somewhat satisfactory is if i'm working out and I'm not overly concerned with the sound quality. Then again, the last thing I'm putting on my belt as I go for a run is a $700 hunk of a smartphone that is put at an increassed risk of damage.

As far as pics, you can store quite a few pics on the I5. It's not a hi res screen so I don't need to save hi res pics on it. They dummy down and quite a fewcan fit on there on top of the cache from my two web browsers and 15 other programs I have loaded on there with more than 8MBs to spare.

As I stated above, the original point of convergence was the merging of the PDA and the mobile phone. Not a pda, mobile phone, low quality MP3 player and low quality camera that only feels normal hanging on my belt if I'm 6'7". I only want the frills if they can be done properly without compromise.

And for all the iPod comments. You don't even own one and it's the only MP3 player on your brain. They obviously did something right in their marketing scheme if they have that word rolling off your tongue like people used to ask for a Kleenex when they wanted a tissue. Which you need because your nose is probably the only thing running in that head of yours bringing all the trashing and bashing into this thread.

I've got 5 gigs of high quality music on my Rio Karma (a Digital Audio Player, not an MP3 player) with 13 more gigs to fill. It has some of the best sound quality, the most useful eq and the most powerful headphone amp out of any DAP on the market. When I want to listen to music, I don't settle like you.

Besides, what's that I see, over there on the horizon, not too far off in the distance.......oh, it's the Samsung I550. And what is that I see over there from Kyocera to ease the scoliosis you've developed from carrying that monster on your hip? oh it's nothing.

Not every user wants an all in one device that makes compromises in it's functionality. I wanted the best combination of a pda and phone in the smallest case possible. I and many others have found that in the I5.

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